Early Bird Deadline

Thursday 9 May 2019

Finding Our New Best Way at Guide Dogs

Guide Dogs

Guide Dogs have trained assistance dogs for over eighty years, creating life-changing partnerships between people with sight loss and animals. Today the service delivers over 1.8million days of support every year, enabling people with sight loss to lead independent lives.

In 2015 Guide Dogs completed a pilot that would radically change the way guide dogs are trained: for staff, volunteers, donors and customers. This remarkable experiment proved that training times for guide dogs could be reduced by 30% and success rates increased by 15%; when scaled up releasing over £5million back into service delivery per year.